Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4eba3ea712c120cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.5 KB Created: 2020-08-09 18:02:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f46d0fa8883660d51d2623ca185a0ee8 SHA-1: c8480e2965a87b1b31a1dd886cf47db5dc32d762 SHA-256: 4eba3ea712c120cb31318dca4bc0d3d2793b77def7aa26ccd1fbba857dfe8f70
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=assessments+in+education+pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of a malicious redirector URL suggests the document's primary purpose is to lure the user to a compromised site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=assessments+in+education+pdf
    • http://fedawar.thornappleplayers.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/babiguwena.pdf
    • http://files.happyownerhappydog.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873826/noxejukikawil-jafukun-nalab.pdf
    • http://files.mcfootball.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739155/nazufojikuke.pdf
    • http://files.thehigginsreport.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738712/rapozoxetuju_savoxad_zopino_gezob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9286/9281/files/12939406795.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/3196/2535/files/52714788623.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3549/9418/files/55375147655.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/30036161276.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4492/0734/files/kopopoxuboxaverefojajupuw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5804/3807/files/hallelujah_handel_organ.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9490/7810/files/savelogebasitaroxuzin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4647/8759/files/dusewalesidovoxez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7046/3912/files/96210827904.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1734/6965/files/66662169486.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000816c.bin
762782da010e10709f6c809a6f3dffe1ab7858ee05b5bd6d8d3662f90cc41c8f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x816C 5160 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000092ee.bin
0da4321f25b10b6d9693e2ee9074c9c54111298e4c01f5af8e08752b2379607a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x92EE 10060 bytes